Trond Arne Bredesen
Trond Arne Bredesen ( born February 4, 1967 in Gran ) is a former Norwegian Nordic skier.
Career
His international debut Bredesen at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1984 in Trondheim junior he won silver in the team competition. A year later, at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 Junior he repeated with the team this item. A further increase of the team managed a further improvement, so the team at the Nordic World Ski Championships Junior won the title in 1986 in Lake Placid.
On March 22, 1986 Bredesen made his debut in the World Cup Nordic Combined. In Štrbské Pleso he became the sixth an immediate result in the points. Also in the 1986/87 season, he started a successful eighth in Canmore. In January 1987, he missed fourth in Schonach his first podium scarce. In the Nordic World Ski Championships Junior 1987 in Asiago Bredesen is again ensured in the individual and in the team competition the silver medal.
One week after the two medals in Asiago Bredesen launched at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf, where she won also the silver medal in the individual and in the team competition. At the last World Cup of the season he reached in Oslo for the first time the podium and finished second. In January 1988, Bredesen in Le Brassus celebrated his first World Cup victory.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988, he missed the team competition, together with Hallstein Bøgseth and Torbjørn Løkken fourth barely a medal. In the individual competition he finished in 11th The World Cup season, he finished fifth after two more places in Oslo and Rovaniemi in fifth place in the World Cup overall standings.
In his most successful season 1988/89 Bredesen started with a victory in the individual in Saalfelden sea. Also in Reit im Winkl he stood at the top of the podium. In the following Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 in Lahti, he won the bronze medal in the individual before he Jørgen Elden has secured the world title in the team competition, together with the brothers Trond Einar and Bård. In the three World Cups until the end of the season Bredesen could again celebrate a victory in Lake Placid. He also reached number two in Oslo and finished third in Thunder Bay. The season he finished with it in the first place overall.
In the following two seasons Bredesen could not build on this success. Also in the Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 in Val di Fiemme, he missed with the team in fifth place for the first time a medal. After the season, he ended his active career.
In the Norwegian Cup 1990 in Gjøvik be Bredesen secured his first and only national title.
Achievements
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten
- Scoring points: Number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline